Kate's Reviews : eBook, Kindlehttp://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/archive/tags/eBook/Kindle/default.aspxTags: eBook, KindleenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)Where is the best place to get eBooks?http://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/archive/2010/08/24/where-is-the-best-place-to-get-ebooks.aspxTue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:00 GMTb3b1d9c2-f4c9-4970-bb5d-c90d4bed0aec:322purple.kate0http://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=322http://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/archive/2010/08/24/where-is-the-best-place-to-get-ebooks.aspx#comments<p>So having got your Sony Reader where is the best place to get eBooks?</p>
<p>Well I have found four sites that I visit regularly that sell ebooks in epub and pdf format for my Sony Reader:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ebooks.com/">http://www.ebooks.com/</a>&nbsp;- very good for computing books - search facility is good - but can&#39;t tailor the recommendations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.booksonboard.com/uk_index.html?ebooks=ebooks">http://www.booksonboard.com/uk_index.html?ebooks=ebooks</a>&nbsp;- I really like the way&nbsp;books are shown in a &#39;wheel&#39;, passing the mouse over a book icon shows the book&#39;s synopsis in the centre of the &#39;wheel&#39;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/browse/ebooks/4294964587/">http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/browse/ebooks/4294964587/</a>&nbsp;- search facility is poor (but better than it used to be) and returns results from the main book site as well as ebooks - very annoying. Also can often buy cheaper elsewhere....</p>
<p>.. which leads me to my favorite of the four...</p>
<p><a href="http://ebooks.whsmith.co.uk">http://ebooks.whsmith.co.uk</a>&nbsp;- separate from the main w.h.smith site, it has it&#39;s own search facility which is pretty good. Also this site actually displays lists of Top 100 &nbsp;Fiction, Non-Fiction, Childrens and Sony Reader ebooks as well as the standard subject collections.</p>
<p>Oh but I do wish that <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk">www.amazon.co.uk</a> sold ebpub and pdf ebooks. I&#39;ve always liked Amazon - they know searching - they know how to sell me books - they use my buying habits to sell me more books - they make recommendations - I can influence the recommendations - I want to buy from Amazon. </p>
<p>That&#39;s why I&#39;ve ordered a Kindle, not because I think the Kindle will be miles better than a Sony Reader - it&#39;s because Amazon is the best place, by far, to buy books, any kind of book.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://hastobe.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=322" width="1" height="1">Sony ReaderKindleeBookAmazonLife with an ebook readerhttp://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/archive/2010/08/22/life-with-an-ebook-reader.aspxSun, 22 Aug 2010 17:15:00 GMTb3b1d9c2-f4c9-4970-bb5d-c90d4bed0aec:317purple.kate0http://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=317http://hastobe.net/blogs/katesreviews/archive/2010/08/22/life-with-an-ebook-reader.aspx#comments<p>I am, I admit, more than a little obsessive about reading. Books, backs of cereal packets, women&#39;s magazines, gadget instructions, you name it I read it. This means i have a houseful of books. It also means that all my adult life I&#39;ve been waiting for some gadget or computer to allow me to read books electronically - just like they did in the Original Star Trek series. </p>
<p>And now I can, I have an ebook reader, well actually two ebook readers, with a third one on order. My first ever ebook reader was a Sony Reader - a PRS 505 - it isn&#39;t bad as a reading device. However when the Sony Reader Touch - PRS 600 - came out a year after I bought my first Reader, I just had to have one. And it is better, but the&nbsp;application that allows you to download books onto the Readers from your PC&nbsp;is not great, not at all.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#39;ve just ordered a Latest Generation Kindle with 3G and Wifi from Amazon. It doesn&#39;t need a separate PC-based application to get ebooks on to the Kindle so that&#39;s a plus! I have however just installed the Kindle for PC app on my PC. It seems OK, but I know that I will want to organise my ebooks into collections and I&#39;m not sure I can do that. I can order the ebooks by purchase date, title or author, but that&#39;s not enough. I want to be able to classify my ebooks, fiction vs non-fiction, read vs unread, good vs bad, etc, etc.&nbsp;How can I do that?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://hastobe.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=317" width="1" height="1">Sony ReaderKindleeBook